Next Season

Quoted from Ipswin

Yes why do you think he lowered himself (if he was a 'division above' us) to come to Grimsby Town?

Was he a regular at his Div 1 club?

Yes. Played 37 league games for Oxford last season.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Not unfeasible that Dennis will have a relegation release clause in his contract.  What that would be I can only guess but I doubt it would be anywhere near the fee County paid for him.  Of course it would also open up the market for other clubs to sneak in but having spent the last two-and-a-half years at struggling clubs, Dennis may well just want to be at a club going somewhere.

Be it financial or other methods of persuasion, Jolley is very capable of attracting players.  Hendrie no doubt had other suitors but opted for us.  I can't imagine that we were the only club that were in for Ohman, even Dennis will have had other clubs interested in him.  If it came down purely to money the likes of Salford would no doubt have had plenty to throw at a proven Conference goalscorer.  

I do believe that Hendrie worked with Jolley when they were both at Burnley. I can see the possibility of some more players coming to BP who have worked with Jolley at Burnley especially the ones that didn't make it to the top two flights of English football.

Quoted from mariner91

Yes. Played 37 league games for Oxford last season.

So why did he come to Grimsby Town?

Quoted from Ipswin

So why did he come to Grimsby Town?

Because he was out of contract?

Quoted from Ipswin

So why did he come to Grimsby Town?

Presumably because he wasn't offered a contract at Oxford and we gave him the best deal out of any that were offered.

Quoted from Ipswin

So why did he come to Grimsby Town?

Who gives a 💩

Let’s just be thankful he did.

He actually came us to initially on trial, he had no other offers in league football at the time...but it's pretty irrelevant really, just be nice if he showed a little loyalty and signed for another year...on the flip side, I would completely understand him taking an offer from a team closer to home, this coming from someone who commuted 170 miles a day from 9 months and as soon as I got an offer closer I jumped at the opportunity

Quoted from mariner91

Presumably because he wasn't offered a contract at Oxford and we gave him the best deal out of any that were offered.

Thank you, I rest my case. He was a free agent no club no contract. We took a chance on him and his (excellent) performances have probably brought him to the notice of other clubs (down south possibly) so he did rebuild his career here and it would be nice if he gave us another year.

Quoted from Ipswin

They might be looking for a goal scorer to get them out of the Conference first time of asking and if he gets amongst the goals for us in the remaining games (as I hope he will) then they may welcome him back for the rest of his contract and won't want to sell him anyway

Personally I'd like to have a choice of Cook Thomas and Dennis next season (if Thomas leaves to go down south somewhere on the basis of his goals for us this season I'll be a bit drunk off frankly that he kick started his career with us then left)

Quite happy to start getting a reputation for kick starting/ developing players careers

1) It shows we have good coaches that improve players
2) Allows us to attract players that we would otherwise not be able to afford.
3) Shows potential parent clubs we are a good club to develop their players out on loan

As a side note, and I know this has been discussed on another thread- but if we have this model of developing young players or kick starting other players careers, then having only having Jolley and Limerick on short term deals is madness.

We need to give them security and confidence to look at the long term health of the club as well as the short term. If they only have '6 games' as Fenty has previously said- it goes directly against the recruitment and development of players philosophy.

Youth policy progression and being able to bring in players who fit and add to the team are good signs - ok , Hooper and Robles were 2 that didn't work here but in the main, most fans should be able to see that we are in the top half and playing better football.

Another year of similar progress will be very interesting to wstch !!